Off Topic Coronavirus

You could just stop being a massive victim. Post a Brexit win or something on the politics thread.

 

My next door neighbours had paramedics in yesterday, they'd had a Christmas away with other family and returned on Monday, hopefully they will be OK. Also had news of confirmed case with one of daughter's close friends. I think this was inevitable with what happened before Christmas and the general public ignorance of the Tiers etc, sadly many will die just before the vaccine may have helped them. People have to take responsibility for themselves rather than blame government or conspiracy theories, the evidence is right in front of you...

 

Oooooh...Ellers

All posts count. I answered your questions 1. About the numbers
and 2. You asked if you were being pedantic. I answered that (imho)

Your posts count...and acknowledged...and not ignored ...so obviously it counts

 

It's irrelevant what day they died on surely. The fact that they have died is enough!

 

You mean more people are ‘getting it’?
Thank **** for that!

 

My cousin (36 years old), a fit lat with no underlying conditions is currently in ST James hospital, Leeds with covid. On a drip and treating him with Steroids. Scary stuff

 

This is not good...

 

Given that the current priorities are the over 80s and care home residents and staff (who should get the vaccine in situ), a lot of people in that queue are going to be disappointed. It looks like a cock up on behalf of the surgery, if they have invited more people than they should, more than anything else. But not good. Was similar, but not as bad, when I had flu jab a few weeks ago. If properly organised that queue will be got through very quickly. I joined a 200 yard long queue and was in and out within 10 minutes, six staff doing jabs simultaneously.

 

idiot organisation.
We have mass vaccination here as well. My Mrs has just taken her dad.
It's all about reaching bloody targets and safety goes out the window.

 

Yesterday we had our highest number of recorded cases 8248 and 20 more deaths. There are now 1285 confirmed cases in hospital and 120 in Intensive care units. In the last 7 days according to our COVID tracker App 174000 people have been tested and 22% of those have tested positive. The R rate is between 2.4 and 3.0 and the national rate per 100k is around 1200 although some counties that border Northern Ireland have rates close to 2000 per 100k.......

The other bad news is that the South Africa strain of the virus has been detected here.......

The good news is that my mother had here jab on Thursday.......

Stay safe all

 

Just received a call from my Mrs. After being told by the doctors that there would not be many people there today... guess what? she turns up and the queues went on and on and on. Her father who has underlining problems and has been shielding for months decided he didn't want to stand on a street with 'that many people' and has gone home.
It's all about bloody targets than safety. f22kwits!

 

As I understand it, it takes approximately 15 minutes for each person to have their covid jab, allowing for sanitation of areas and a period of observation post jab.

 

The 15 minute rule has been axed for the Oxford vax as they say it's shown no problems to date. It also speeds up delivery which is probably the main consideration now...

 

I bet they didn't have to queue in the cold...

 

That’s what I have just said.

 

More big numbers today, and more stuff in the need for tougher lockdown measures because the new virus is ‘50% more infectious’ than the old style one.

But I don’t understand what 50% more infectious actually means. Is there anything specific we can do to protect ourselves, or is it simply following the current rules? Surely we need people just to comply with the lockdown rules, not add more they won’t comply to?

 

Another 1k+ deaths to add to the total but it’s a great day.

 

Puke-inducing.

 

Matt Hancock has just said they are rolling out testing of assymtomatic people by the laminar flow test.
Andrew Marr has given him the data from his own scientists in Liverpool saying it produced ( incredibly) that it produced far too many false positives...and too many false negatives.
(Scientifically I am at a loss to see how it does both)

Hancock just said "no that is not right".
Marr countered with its "your own scientists that are saying this".
Hancock reiterated with "its not right"

Glad the government is following the science so closely‍♂️

 

He’ll probably be knighted for his efforts.